Day: 18 April 2026

The Clios Launch New Program To Celebrate Creators

Stuart Mitchell

The Clios, the global awards company celebrating creative excellence across a variety of industries, today announced a new program launching in partnership with YouTube and Influential. Clio Creators celebrates how digital content creators are driving creativity and commerce through ideas that shape culture across platforms, brands, communities, and industries. Unlike other recognition programs in this space, Clio Creators accepts submissions across Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube and other emerging content creation platforms.  “For more than 65 years, the Clios have recognized creativity in many forms. What started out primarily as…

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ChickenTrack 2025 Shows Steady Progress on Broiler Welfare—But Calls for Continued Industry Commitment

Stuart Mitchell

Compassion in World Farming has today (12 March) published its latest European ChickenTrack report, evaluating how leading food companies are progressing toward meeting the higher welfare criteria of the Better Chicken Commitment (BCC). The BCC is a comprehensive, science-based framework designed to improve the lives of millions of chickens raised for meat each year.  Across Europe, over 410 companies have signed up to the BCC.  ChickenTrack 2025 evaluates the progress of the 107 most influential signatories—with the potential to improve the lives of more than 794 million chickens each year—by…

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WARC Global Ad Spend Forecast Q1 2026 update: Implications of the Gulf energy crisis

Stuart Mitchell

A new study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that a prolonged conflict in the Middle East could threaten $49.9bn of global advertising growth this year, and $93.9bn over the next two years. A milder crisis still risks $19.0bn this year, with residual impacts lasting well into 2027.  James McDonald, Director of Data, Intelligence & Forecasting, WARC, and author of the research, says: “Even in a contained scenario, an oil shock of this nature acts like a tax on consumers – pushing up prices while eroding real spending power. In a…

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Opportunity to invest in the first-ever community-owned battery at one of the UK’s largest community-owned solar energy park

Stuart Mitchell

Low Carbon Hub, a social enterprise which develops community-owned renewable energy projects in Oxfordshire is inviting people to invest in the UK’s first community-owned solar energy battery at Ray Valley solar park in Arncott, near Bicester. Ray Valley, one of the UKs largest community-owned solar energy parks, was set up by Low Carbon Hub in 2022 and can generate enough clean electricity to power around 7,000 homes. Low Carbon Hub now plans to install battery storage at the park to ensure more clean energy is used, and more money is…

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Bureau Veritas expands its role as an Approved Verifier under the Climate Bonds Standard

Stuart Mitchell

Climate Bonds Initiative is pleased to announce that Bureau Veritas has expanded its geographical scope as an Approved Verifier under the Climate Bonds Standard and Certification Scheme, with additional offices in China, Japan, India and France now formally listed in the Climate Bonds Verifiers Directory. This update builds on Bureau Veritas’ long-standing role as an Approved Verifier, following the initial confirmation of its Brazilian office in 2020. The inclusion of these new locations reflects Bureau Veritas’ continued commitment to supporting issuers across key global markets in meeting the requirements of…

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